EditorialShirley Raines, founder of the nonprofit Beauty 2 the Streetz, in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, June 10, 2023. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
EditorialShirley Raines, founder of the nonprofit Beauty 2 the Streetz, in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, June 10, 2023. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
EditorialShirley Raines, founder of the nonprofit Beauty 2 the Streetz, in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, June 10, 2023. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
EditorialShirley Raines, founder of the nonprofit Beauty 2 the Streetz, in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, June 10, 2023. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
EditorialShirley Raines, founder of the nonprofit Beauty 2 the Streetz, in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, June 10, 2023. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
EditorialShirley Raines, founder of the nonprofit Beauty 2 the Streetz, in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles, June 10, 2023. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
EditorialSally Gale, the founder of the Chileno Valley Newt Brigade, takes photographs, which will be uploaded to the citizen science website iNaturalist, in Marin County, Calif., where torrential downpours have forced thousands of the amphibians to emerge from their burrows and set out in search of a lake, stream, pond or puddle to breed in, Dec. 3, 2022. (Ian C. Bates/The New York Times)